Get On Board
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Brand new clubs that offered teenage boys the opportunity to meet celebrities, win prizes and enjoy many activities!
Reading Communities
The towns of Barry and Llanelli organised a whole host of book-based events over the summer and autumn!
Click here for more details of the 2008 Reading Communities.
Give a Book Week
Celebrities and members of the public throughout Wales gave each other books as gifts during this special week in July!
Click here to take a peek at the week's activities
Monthly Themes
November – Screen reads
Welsh Adult
Llafur Cariad
A powerful novel about love and heartbreak, political clashes and corruption during the 1980s and 1990s in Wales, based on the S4C television series Llafur Cariad.
Y Stafell Ddirgel
A new edition of a popular novel set in the Dolgellau area depicting the struggles of the Quakers to worship as they wish, and their decision to sail to a new life in America. First published in 1969.
O Drelew i Dre-fach
An edition of 'Nel Fach y Bwcs' and the sequel 'Ffarwél Archentina' by Marged Lloyd Jones, containing photographs of Patagonia. It recounts the story of a young girl who sailed to Patagonia in 1870 and spent her early years there; this updated version offers a chance to relive the remarkable story.
Y Graith
An up-dated version by her daughter, Catrin Puw Davies, of the novel which won for the author the Literary Medal at Cardiff National Eisteddfod, 1938; it is a novel about a young girl at the turn of the century wrestling with circumstances of family poverty and cruelty.
Blwyddyn Fawr Glyn Wise
An account of Glyn Wise, an 18 year-old from Blaenau Ffestiniog who was accepted as an applicant to take part in Big Brother 2006. He is remembered for being a natural comedian, an appalling chef and a patriotic Welsh-man who exposed the Welsh language to a whole new audience. This book looks at the way he made his dreams come true and at his path to fame.
Amdani!
A lively, humorous novel about the members of a women's rugby team. First published in July 1997.
Martha, Jac a Sianco
A powerful novel relating the story of two elderly brothers and their sister who are held captive by family circumstances and by a life of hardship on a farm in rural south-west Wales, by a talented young writer. Winner of the Academi Book of the Year Award for 2005. First published in November 2004.
